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Published in: 50.50A problematic discourse: who speaks for Arab women?Placed between the First Lady and the Diplomat at the recent Trust Women conference on the 'Arab spring', Ala'a...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt speaks to an international audience
Collusion and confusion: Hania Sholkamy asks whether the international community will meet the challenge of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe upcoming general strike in Tunisia: a historical perspective
The first general strike in Tunisia since 1978 takes place in a much-changed country and against old friends but for...
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Published in: HomeThe revolution continues: Morsi’s miscalculations and the Ikhwan’s impasseAfter President Morsi’s Constitutional Declaration providing him with unprecedented sweeping powers, the Muslim...
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Published in: 50.50Myopic Morsi and oblivious Obama: counting the costs of autocracy
President Morsi’s ill-advised and badly executed attempts to concentrate power in his hands will exact high moral,...
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Published in: 50.50State feminism in Tunisia: reading between the linesThe Tunisian experience with state feminism is a model to draw lessons from, especially for the Arab-Muslim...
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Published in: HomeDivided we fall: the ongoing quest for a single Muslim voiceFrom a small incident at a local mosque in West London to the 'Innocence of Muslims' riots, a reflection on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEating the democratic crumbs from the Arab ruler’s table
The Morsi-Mubarak contrast will eventually wear thin as people demand their human security. All 83 million of them.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Alexandria mafia’s new adversary: civil societyPost-revolutionary Egypt was visited by the semi-break down of law and order, and an Egyptian public that became...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s stake in the Syrian revolutionNumerous segments of the Egyptian public have thrown their weight behind “their” Syrian revolution and cheered for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s history repeating itself fallacy
Questions are being asked, is Egypt going to become like 1979 Iran, 1991 Algeria, Old model Turkey, 1999 Pakistan,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s morning after: against Dictatorship 2.0
With Egypt’s first elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, SCAF is no longer going to be grooming a fourth military dynasty...
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Published in: 50.50Disquiet and despair: the gender sub-texts of the 'Arab spring'
The extreme precariousness of women’s rights in post- Arab spring successor regimes can neither be fully accounted...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s presidential run-off: legal limbo and the transition to nowhere
The best way for the military to retain its privileges would be to step back from its high-visibility role. The more...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRevolution never sleeps
Alexandria became known initially for the revolution’s poster-child, and then for its ‘No’ Vote in the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaVoting for security in Alexandria
In Alexandria, our author encounters three violent incidents in as many days. Witnessing such crimes prior to the...
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Published in: 50.50Entrepreneurs of the revolution: jockeying for livelihood and security in post-Arab Spring CairoIn the context of lax policing in the aftermath of the Arab spring, Cairo’s affluent neighbourhoods have seen the...
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Published in: openSecurityNATO’s Middle East policy reform: learning from EU failures
In response to Josiah Surface, Andrea Teti argues that NATO must think innovatively about the assumptions...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s uncertain road to prosperity: economic challenges to long‐term stability
The livelihoods of the Egyptian people are a political priority. In the 1990s, at the behest of the IMF and the US,...
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Published in: openSecurityEurope and NATO's response to the Arab Uprisings
Western governments need to recognize that authoritarian regimes are often fierce but not strong; that privatisation...